A total of $22,000 worth of cash prizes and a show by Phil Collins’ lead guitarist, Milwaukee native Daryl Stuermer are among the highlights for the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts’ first Guitar Competition & Festival, taking place Aug. 15 to 17.

Jim James' new album "Regions of Light and Sound of God" is a solo effort, his first, but the My Morning Jacket had a ton of support--21 musicians in fact, including the Roots--when he performed '50s-style love song "A New Life" on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" last night.

If you look around, there's a sort of quiet, cosmic war going on all around us. You can see it in the cracks of a sidewalk, on attic junk and down the gradual sag of a face. It's our effort against the beat of time. And it seems to be what, at least in part, Tony Matelli is exploring in his sculptural work at the Green Gallery East.

From the outside of the exhibition space, it may seem like you missed the opening night by a few years. Dusty mirrors propped against walls bear the handprints and doodles of bygone humans. Walking up to them for a moment almost channels a quieting, humanistic experience of a cave drawing. And it is then the liminal space you just trounced in on begins to move into focus. | Feb. 5, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(1)

Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Museum will host a number of champion motorcycle racers Feb. 22 at a public program called "Untold Stories: Built for Speed: The History & Evolution of Harley-Davidson Racing."

Three-time and defending NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Eddie Krawiec of the Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines drag racing team and Andrew Hines will be part of the event. | Feb. 5, 2013»Read Full Article

Howlin' Wolf died in 1976, Muddy Waters in 1983, but there are musicians still around today who played with the blues legends, who are keeping their music alive today. Musicians like Jody Williams, a guitarist who played with Wolf, and Bob Margolin, Waters' guitarist for seven years, and Grammy winner James Cotton, who played with both Wolf and Waters.